Cassius pressed closer to Renisha.
Close enough to feel each other’s breath.
Cassius slowly exhaled.
He pulled Renisha even closer.
Renisha’s eyelashes trembled.
“What if you get hurt?”
Cassius’s voice scattered into the air.
Renisha bit her lip.
She didn’t know. Why is her heart so restless with just one question?
“Kiss me, Cassius.”
Renisha uttered in a sweet voice.
“Right now.”
Under that arrogant command, Cassius yielded.
Cassius leaned toward Renisha.
He swept her white nape and gently wrapped her slender neck with his palm.
He wanted to devour Renisha in one bite.
At this moment, with the audience watching, he wanted to show them whose person Renisha was.
Whether it’s Lexus, Mateo, or others aiming for Renisha.
“Heh.”
Renisha let out a pleased breath.
“In the world…”
Someone exclaimed in awe.
The hall, locked in silence, began to stir again.
Someone glanced at Lexus, and someone else held their excited heart.
It was the moment a new romance was born in Hientri.
Renisha and Cassius became the protagonists of a beautiful love story.
Former lovers separated unwillingly because of the villain Lexus.
Moreover, the difference in status between Renisha and Cassius and Cassius’s heroic history helped create a narrative.
“Hmm.”
Renisha, who heard the story, closed her eyes and smiled beautifully.
One must think about the implied meaning in that smile.
“Turiel. Isn’t it amusing?”
“Yes…?”
Turiel hesitated.
He put down the teacup he was about to drink again.
The expression was the one Renisha used when planning something.
“People tend to believe what they want to believe. To the citizens of the empire, I am like a fence protecting them. And Cassius is a hero safeguarding the empire. Together, Cassius and I are wrapped in love through their mouths.”
“What… what’s strange about that?”
“That’s not what Lexus wanted. He tried to make me a great villain, a wicked woman, by attaching humiliating and filthy reasons, ultimately to disgrace me. However, in the end, I won.”
Renisha flashed a gentle smile.
“They don’t want to tarnish me. Lexus misused that crowd psychology. Now, what should we do in this situation?”
Turiel touched the teacup with a puzzled expression.
Reading Renisha’s intentions was always a challenging task.
To be honest, what Cassius and I did yesterday deserved condemnation. Usually, that’s the case when you fail to maintain decorum. However, Lexus tore us apart, and surprisingly, it worked in our favor. It fueled rumors, Turiel. Turn Cassius and me into the protagonists of a tender love story. It would be good to create a drama.
“What are you… thinking?”
Renisha’s gaze sank heavily.
She was looking far beyond.
“I must ascend to the throne flawlessly. If not, I must become the tragic heroine. I need to rise, displacing my perfectly alive ex-husband. Lexus as a vile villain, and Cassius as the hero of the people.”
Renisha laid out various moves in advance.
In chess, those who see the future first and take the lead are destined to win.
Renisha spoke slowly.
“It’s a way of justifying my throne. Emphasize Cassius’s sanctity. It’s about hitting the right points when creating a play.”
Understanding what she meant, Turiel sighed.
Renisha intended to use this rumor to perfect their image.
A stimulating love story featuring a villain, a tragic heroine, and a hero was as popular and easy to understand as it gets.
“…Isn’t highlighting Your Excellency’s sanctity risky? Your Excellency is from the mixed race…”
“Hientri could persecute the mixed race because there was an implicit agreement with the temple. The temple stamped the mixed race as heretics. With Cassius, who obtained the power of the red snake from the temple, we can raise doubts about whether he is truly a heretic. We need to make an official announcement from the temple.”
Renisha planned to remove the chains of oppression imposed on the mixed race.
They should be the foundation of Renisha.
The mixed race completed their migration as Hiloshine.
“Luna will help in this process.”
Luna, who had been listening quietly, jumped up.
“We cannot reveal our identity. We follow the leader…!”
“Luna. Is your leader greater than Hisham’s lineage? Cassius is of Hisham’s lineage. And I am his wife, no different from your queen.”
“The Duke is not a true Hisham!”
Luna blushed and protested.
“He hasn’t ascended yet…!”
“Then Cassius wouldn’t need to save the mixed race. There would be no need to make room in Hiloshine to protect the mixed race.”
Why can’t Renisha win arguments against Luna?
Luna trembled.
“Luna, the future of the mixed race is also at stake in this matter. You won’t live as a fugitive forever, will you?”
“…What if I die?”
“It won’t happen. Cassius will be with you.”
“The Duke…?”
“Cassius will personally assert his sanctity, and your role is to prove that Cassius is of Hisham’s lineage.”
Renisha explained openly.
Luna was weak in such political maneuvers.
Luna seemed confused, like a lost child.
Ex-husband Wants Reconciliation
One-line summary: Chasing the wife to the crematorium (making an effort to attract someone who has become indifferent), the female lead doesn’t look back, the second male lead takes the position.
Intro:
To repay the kindness of the older generation, Su Mu crossed into a female-dominated world and became a live-in daughter-in-law of the Yan family, single-handedly saving the Yan family from fire and water.
But her husband, Yan Jiyue, the eldest son of the Yan family, treated her with sarcasm and never showed her a good face.
It wasn’t until after Su Mu’s death that this pampered and arrogant young master shed a few fake tears and pretended to want to die for love.
This life’s kindness was enough. If there was a next life, she would definitely kick Yan Jiyue away.
Who knew that the heavens would be so kind as to allow her to be reborn, returning to the time when she had just married into the Yan family.
Su Mu glanced at the Yan eldest son, who still spoke coldly to her, and threw a divorce letter in front of him.
“Let’s divorce!”
***
Yan Jiyue never imagined that he would be reborn. He happily went to find Su Mu, wanting to make up for the mistakes he had made in his ignorant youth.
Wasn’t the reason the heavens allowed him to be reborn to let him reconcile with Su Mu?
But when he pushed open the door to Su Mu’s room, the person lying on the bed was another man.
Su Mu’s personal attendant, Xie Yi.
Yan Jiyue hated him so much that his teeth itched. In front of Su Mu, Xie Yi was a gentle and considerate whisperer of sweet nothings, but in reality, he was vicious-hearted and deliberately sabotaged their husband and wife relationship.
In the previous life, it was he who secretly hid in Su Mu’s coffin and committed suicide, stealing a step ahead of him to be buried with Su Mu.
Yan Jiyue’s eyes were filled with hatred as he cursed, “What kind of thing are you? Your background is lowly, what right do you have to occupy Su Mu?”
Xie Yi looked at the sleeping Su Mu and no longer pretended to be a whisperer of sweet nothings.
He proudly stuck out his belly, “I have the right because my belly is capable of giving the Wife-master a daughter.”
***
Yan Jiyue was consumed with jealousy. He spread rumors that Xie Yi had once been branded with the mark of a “harlot” on his chest.
But on the night Xie Yi cut off the flesh bearing that mark, Su Mu suddenly realized something was amiss.
“How did you know the exact moment I was poisoned? And why did you show up a month early?”
Xie Yi remained silent, blood from his wound soaking through his robes. His sapphire eyes brimmed with anguish – or was it just a flawless act?
Between a once-arrogant husband now seeking redemption, and a gentle soul willing to die for her – who truly held the darkest secrets? And could it be that Su Mu and Yan Jiyue weren’t the only ones given a second chance at life…?
[Reading Guide]
1. True divorce, chasing the wife to the crematorium, the female lead doesn’t look back, the male lead is Xie Yi.
2. The ex-husband did not cheat, he just realized too late and didn’t realize that he liked the female lead.
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